Wil S. Hylton

Wil S. Hylton is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at New York. His first book, Vanished, describes the mysterious disappearance of an American military airplane during World War II and the relentless effort by scientists and explorers to locate its missing crew. Hylton appeared on the Longform Podcast in February 2014. His full portfolio of magazine work, including articles from The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, GQ and Rolling Stone, is hosted on Longform.

On an artist who’s spent nearly 50 years bending the rules of space and light, and his life’s work, an extinct volcano in Arizona where he has been developing a network of tunnels and underground rooms since 1974.